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Abstract

Analysis of induced wavefront aberration after refractive surgery is important in the design of vision correction and the development of visual correction technology. Based on a mathematical model of the anterior corneal surface, the influence of treatment decentration on induced wavefront aberrations was studied by considering oblique incidence. The results revealed that significant coma was induced from the treatment translation, and it was nearly proportional to the translation or corrected refraction of vision correction. The induced aberrations from the lateral translation correlated with the angle formed by the position vector and the astigmatism axis of myopia astigmatism correction. The induced spherical aberration did not relate to a lateral translation of the center of the pupil, but was determined only by the corrected refraction. Additionally, no significant higher-order aberrations were induced from eye cyclotorsion for pure myopia or myopia astigmatism correction. Oblique incidence played an important role in the impact of treatment decentration on the induced aberrations in refractive surgery. The induced coma without considering the oblique incidence was obviously larger than that with it. In order to achieve the best postoperative visual performance, the effect of oblique incidence in refractive surgery should be taken into account, and treatment decentration should be minimized by all means, particularly for high myopia.

Corneal shape and tissue ablation depth after laser refractive surgery with the curvature radii of the anterior corneal surface. After refractive surgery, Rf; before surgery, Rix and Riy; and the diameter of the optical zone S.

Actual corrected wavefront aberrations (axis X’Y’) decentered with respect to the eye (axis XY). The aberrations are the rotated (angle α) version and the translated (Δx, Δy) version of the ideal corrected aberrations.

Contour maps of the induced coma and spherical aberration for correcting pure myopia. Panel A corresponds to the coma and panel B corresponds to the spherical aberration. The diameter of the optical zone is 6 mm.